GREAT BRITAIN: Pronunciation

Publishers of the Harewood News are
Viscount Lascelles, 15, and the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, 14, sons of
George VI's sister, Princess Mary, and the Earl of Harewood. Last
fortnight the News, in a special edition mimeographed for an adult
garden party at Harewood House, undertook "to settle once and for all"
whether the publishers' father is Earl of "Hair-wood," "airwood" or
"Harwood."

The News related that one old woman was overheard telling
another on a Leeds bus, "Well, Mrs. 'iggins, they can say what they
like, but I shall always call it 'arewood with the haccent on the
haitch." The correct...